Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.
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I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.
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You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
